'I am closer to this place'-Space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care

Andrew Moore; Bernie Carter; Anne Hunt; Kay Sheikh

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.11.002

'I am closer to this place'-Space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care

Andrew Moore^*, Bernie Carter, Anne Hunt, Kay Sheikh

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Abstract

In the United Kingdom hospice day care services are the fastest growing yet least researched of the palliative care services. Using photo-elicitation interviews with 11 day care patients attending a specialist hospice day care setting we explored their experiences of the hospice as a place and how these changed over time.Informed by concepts from existential and humanistic geography we propose three existential modes of being - Drifting, Sheltering and Venturing - which characterize the patients' lived experiences of the hospice. Our phenomenological analysis shows that the hospice is (re)constructed purposefully to achieve a sense of 'home' and 'homelikeness', creating an important therapeutic landscape for patients.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	151-158
Number of pages	8
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	19
Issue number	1
Early online date	26 Nov 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.11.002
Publication status	Published - Jan 2013

Keywords

Home
Homelikeness
Hospice
Space/place
Therapeutic landscapes
UK

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